Cotton-gin.



J. T. SHUTE.

COTTON GIN.

APPLlCATiON FILED JAN. 12. 1916.

Patented Mar; 14, 1916.

JAMES T. SHUTE, F MONROE NORTH CAROLINA.

COTTON-GIN.

To tzll whom it may concern;- Be it known that-I, JAMES T. Snore, a. citizen of the United States, residm at Monroe, in the county of Union and tate "of North, Carolina, have invented certain ,new and useful Improvements in Cotton- Grins; and I hereby declaretthat the followspecification.

Ying is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform part of this i This invention relates to cotton gins, and hasparticular reference to the cylinder for U removin cotton from the gin saw.

a The 0 jects of the invention are to prevent the gin saws clogging in case the cotton should be damp,'to insure removal of all .cotton from the saw, to prevent cutting of thefcotton,to'open up ordisintegrate any 20,

ellets or masses of damp cotton that might be] taken from the saws by the brushes or cleaners, and to obviate any danger of pro- I ducing sparks by friction between the cleaners and saws or passages of the foreign subnderg stances between the saws and cleaning cyl- .T he invention resides in certain novel fea- ,lmres of construction of the cylinder by which saws.v In accordance with this invention X swan cylinder-is provided with a plurality oflongitudinally disposed brushing, cleanyingand beating members arranged in sucj eession. Each brush member may be of the usual type and is preferably formed. of bristlesf arranged in a row in a suitable backing and attached to the eriph y of the y brush member on the cylinder'is a cleaning strip of leather, rubber or suitable composite {material suitably secured to the elastic or resilient; said cleansing member eriphery of the cylinder said cleaning mem er being stiffer than the brush but preferably slightly is slotted on its outer edge so that it can pass the saw, but the sides of the slots will gremove any wet or gummy particles of cotton adhering to the saw teeth not removed by the brushes. Following each semi-resilient cleaning member is a beating member,

preferably composed of a thin strip of iron or steel having its outer edge provided with slots much wider than the slots in the clean- 3 ing member so that it can freely pass-the Specification of Letters Patent.

the cotton is removed from the gin to strike any pellets or knots of cotton removed from the saw and break up or loosen such pellets or clogged bits of cotton.

I wlll explain the invention more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings and summarize in the claims the essenis desired.

In said drawings: Figure 1 is a detail sectional view of part of a cotton gin having acleamng cylinder constructed in accord ance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of a section of the gin saws, and

of the cleaning" cylinder. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of part of the clean- 1ng cyl1nder. Fig. 4. is a detail diagrammatic view.

The gin may in general be of any preferred construction, and is shown as having a hopper H, a series of saws S, ribs R, and a flue F, and a brushing cleaning and beating cylinder C; these parts, with the exception of the brushin cleaning and beating mem-- bers on the cy inder, hereinafter described, may be constructed and arranged to operate in the usual manner, and Willbe readily understood by those familiar with gins, and need no further detailed illustration or explanation. The brush cylinder should as usual be rotated at a much higher peripheral speed than the saws.

The cylinder C is provided on its periphery with a series of longitudinally disposed brushing members 1, cleaning members 2, and beating members 3; each of which memhers is arranged longitudinally of the cylinder; and the members 1, 2, 8, are arranged in sets, and preferably in the order named,

around the entirecircumference of the cyl inder so that the saws are first passed by the brush members, then by the cleaning members and then by the beating members as the cylinder rotates.

The brush members 1 may be made in the.

usual manner of hair, fiber, or wire bristles secured to a suitable backing 6 attached to the cylinder so that the bristles project from the periphery of cylinder sufficiently to lightly contact with and overlap the edges of the saw S, as the cylinder rotates, and the brushes will. remove any lightly adhering cotton from the saw teeth.

The cleaning members 2 are preferably Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Application filed January 12, 1916. Serial No. 71,756.

saw blades; said beater member is adapted .tial features thereof for which protection I made of leather, rubber or other suitable semi-elastic or resilient material and may be 

